10X more aluminum in a muffin than a vaccine. Just like there is more mercury in a can off of solid tuna than there is in vaccine. Amount of disinformation around vaccines is staggering. Vaccines change your DNA etc. You know what permanently changes your DNA which can increases your cancer risk? Viral infections like HPV.
Readit Newsadrr commented on RFK Jr demanded a vaccine study be retracted – the journal said no nature.com/articles/d4158... · Posted by u/rntn
adrr commented on Waymo granted permit to begin testing in New York City cnbc.com/2025/08/22/waymo... · Posted by u/achristmascarl
I haven’t lived in NYC, but I have lived in Boston. Isn’t the real concern winter? Has Waymo (or any other self driving tech company) shown that it can handle the snow well: non-visible lanes, downshifting to avoid braking, etc.?
Definitely interested in how this turns out.
They tested in Buffalo last year and have in tested Michigan.
https://www.wkbw.com/news/local-news/inside-the-self-driving...
adrr commented on How does the US use water? construction-physics.com/... · Posted by u/juliangamble
Yep, 1.6 trillion gallons of water from the Colorado river goes into irrigation for alfalfa[1]. Google's total water consumption across all data centers in 2023 was 6.4 billion gallons[2].
People are sounding the alarm about water usage in AI data centers while ignoring the real unsustainable industries like animal agriculture.
1: https://coloradosun.com/2024/04/04/research-colorado-river-w...
2: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/google-emissions-...
Talking about wasteful. There 16,000 golf courses that use 312,000 gallons a day[1]. Thats 1.82 trillion gallons annually. Only 28 million people play golf course on a course. Google's MAU is 90%+ of US population, beef or milk consumptions i would guess that 90% of population consumes it at least once a month. We're focusing on things that everyone uses but the things that less than 10% of the populations partake in. Why do we have golf courses in arid regions that have severe water shortages? Before places like LA county spends $8 billion on a toilet to tap system[2], maybe shut down the golf courses first.
1. https://www.npr.org/2008/06/11/91363837/water-thirsty-golf-c...
2. https://www.mwdh2o.com/building-local-supplies/pure-water-so...
adrr commented on How does the US use water? construction-physics.com/... · Posted by u/juliangamble
adrr commented on How does the US use water? construction-physics.com/... · Posted by u/juliangamble
I found a lot of value in this article. Out of frustration with people who are alarmist over how much water a datacenter "consumes" compared to households, I've probably erred too often towards:
'People sometimes invoke the idea that water moves through a cycle and never really gets destroyed, in order to suggest that we don’t need to be concerned at all about water use. But while water may not get destroyed, it can get “used up” in the sense that it becomes infeasible or uneconomic to access it.'
Side note, this personal anecdote from the author caught me off guard: "my monthly water bill is roughly 5% of the cost of my monthly electricity bill". I'm in the American southwest (but not arid desert like parts of Arizona/Nevada/Utah), and my monthly water cost averages out annually to ~60% of the cost of electricity. Makes me wonder if my water prices are high, if my electricity prices are low, if my water usage is high or my electricity usage is low.
Biggest alarmist is movement against Nestle using water for bottled water in California. They don’t even use as much as an average golf course.
How much water is wasted on golf courses in these arid regions? Or growing water intensive crops like alfalfa that isn’t even directly used to feed people.
adrr commented on How does the US use water? construction-physics.com/... · Posted by u/juliangamble
What was the margin debt that cause black Tuesday and was the genesis to the great depression? It was at record highs as well, 10% of the total market cap of all stocks.
adrr commented on 95% of Companies See 'Zero Return' on $30B Generative AI Spend thedailyadda.com/95-of-co... · Posted by u/speckx
Sentiment analysis, nuanced categorization by issue, detecting new issues, tracking trends, etc, are the bread and butter of any data team at a f500 call center.
I'm not going to say every project born out of that data makes good business sense (big enough companies have fluff everywhere), but ime anyway, projects grounded to that kind of data are typically some of the most straight-forward to concretely tie to a dollar value outcome.
Those have been done for 10+ years. We were running sentiment analysis on email support to determine prioritization back in 2013. Also ran bayesian categorization to offer support reps quick responses/actions. Don't need expensive LLMs it.
adrr commented on U.K. 30-Year Yield Tops U.S. as Pressure Mounts on Government Borrowing coindesk.com/markets/2025... · Posted by u/ksec
Where do you people get this stuff?
The economy saw no impact from Brexit whatsoever. Remarkable but true. Go look for yourself. The huge deficits are structural and driven by unrestrained immigration and welfare spending combined with the ruinous costs of lockdown, which put the debt load onto an unsustainable trajectory. Instead of being stable after lockdowns ended interests costs started continuously rising as a percentage of the budget.
Labour certainly has not decreased the deficit unless you're counting a "reduction" from lockdown costs.
I literally posted a deficit to GDP ratio showing the deficit drop when Labour came to power.
Here's a peer reviewed studies in major economic journals saying Brexit had negative affect on UK.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/iere.12541 - devalued pound https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002219962... - increased prices
Do you have any peer reviewed studies showing that it had no effect? THere's more studies showing decreased trade, huge decrease in foreign investments.
adrr commented on U.K. 30-Year Yield Tops U.S. as Pressure Mounts on Government Borrowing coindesk.com/markets/2025... · Posted by u/ksec
Such an HN-tier comment. The UK's excessive borrowing has nothing to do with the EU, which also has its own borrowing problems. It's because it has a Labour government whose backbenchers refuse to countenance any cuts or optimizations to welfare whatsoever, even though the current welfare levels are unaffordable and crippling the economy.
Leaving the EU has actually helped that, because the membership payments can now be spent on general costs, and it didn't worsen trade or the economy in any noticeable way.
Huge deficits exited prior labor party takeover due to economy getting smacked by brexit. Labor party has decreased the deficit.
https://www.economicshelp.org/blog/5922/economics/uk-budget-...